Tuesday, February 25, 2014

CALPIRG Info Session

CALPIRG is a consumer group that stands up to powerful interests whenever they threaten our health and safety, our financial security or our right to fully participate in our democratic society. They're back on campus for an info-session and will also be recruiting for their full-time Campus Organizer opportunity. Apply TODAY to their position on TIGERlink (job #10313) for the chance to interview.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Financial Aid and Scholarships Meeting

The Intercultural Community Center and the First Generation Club will be hosting a Financial Aid and Scholarship meeting, open to the Occidental Community.

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8:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Looking for a scholarship? Do you know about changes made to your financial aid status? Come to this information session to explore financial aid resources and upcoming scholarship opportunities through the office of National Awards. Learn about the new SALT program available through Financial Aid to help students manage debt and gain financial skills for life.

Careers in Writing and English: a presentation on the Denver Publishing Institute

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Careers in Writing and English: a presentation on the Denver Publishing Institute

The CDC presents Choose Your Own Adventure Week. Students of all majors interested in writing careers and English-related fields are invited to this event, presented by Claremont Graduate University. Summer Ogata '08, Marketing Coordinator from Macmillan Children's Publishing Group will present on the Denver Publishing Institute and her own career in publishing.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Capoeira Angola @Oxy

The Oxy community is invited to a workshop and demonstration of Capoeira Angola by Contra Mestre Eric "Chicago" Murray.

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Time:
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM

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Capoeira Angola is an Afro-Brazilian art form that combines dance, theatre, martial arts, and music to emphasize community and wellness.

Contra Mestre Chicago (as seen on the right in the flyer attached to this email) is born and raised in Chicago. He is a mental health professional and Oberlin College graduate who has trained Capoeira for over 20 years. His main school, the Low Country Capoeira Angola Society is in Philadelphia. He has also led workshops in New York, London, Paris, Oakland, and Los Angeles.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - Wednesday, February 26, 2014

David Stern- Rebellious Lawyering Speaker

The college community is invited to attend a Justice in Los Angeles Spring Speaker Series talk by David Stern.

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Time:
All Day

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For two decades, Mr. Stern has been at the forefront of efforts to extend the reach of public interest law and has served as a powerful voice in the fight for equal access to justice. As an executive director of Washington-based Equal Justice Works, Mr. Stern has helped send more than 1,200 attourneys and 2,500 law students into public interest fellowships across the country- serving thousands of clients in need. His pro bono efforts have attracted powerful support from major law firms and big business and have created an alumni association that populates some of the top positions at public interest groups around the contry.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

China & Africa in the Age of Globalization

A talk by Professor Sophal Ear presented by The John Parke Young Initiative on the Global Economy.

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Time:
3:15 AM - 4:45 AM

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Sophal Ear is an Assistant Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the US Naval Postgraduate School. He has taught on thehospital ship USNS Mercy in support of the Pacific Partnership 2008. He completed his postdoc at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, where he taught Policy and Administration in Developing Countries.

Before entering academia, he consulted for the World Bank and worked for the United Nations Development Programme. Early in his career he traveled to the West Bank and Gaza, and to Algeria, on social protection projects, where he gained a firsthand understanding of the realities of foreign aid on a national scale. Having grown up on Aid to Families with Dependent Children, he personally knew there were pitfalls to welfare system.

He came to the US at the age of 10 as a Cambodian refugee via France after his mother escaped with him and his four siblings from the Khmer Rouge by posing as a Vietnamese woman. She recounted her journey to him in an article in The New York Times.